This report provides a quick overview of Oregon’s recent crop and livestock production. The following pages include 2010 preliminary estimates for production and value. In addition, there are revised estimates for 2008 and 2009. Preliminary or first estimates are revised as needed when updated information is received. All of the...
Published July 2000. Revised February 2011. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Discusses nutrient management and fertilizer recommendations for lime, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, sulfur, chloride, and micronutrients on annual ryegrass grown for seed. Includes discussion of research and explanation of nutrient management recommendations.
Weeds in snap beans drag down yield and contaminate products sent to processors or markets. They may even make it impossible to harvest the crop mechanically. It is worth the effort to be proactive when managing weeds in row crops. Proactive rather than reactive approaches are essential to successful management...
Oregon’s fishing community is concerned about the potential effects that wave energy conversion devices could have on Dungeness crab movement, behavior and harvests. Though crabbing has been a mainstay of West Coast economies for decades, little information has been collected or analyzed on adult Dungeness crab movement, in general, and...
The hygiene hypothesis offers an explanation for the correlation, well-established in the industrialized
nations of North and West, between increased hygiene and sanitation, and increased rates of asthma and
allergies. Recent studies have added to the scope of the hypothesis, showing a link between decreased
exposure to certain bacteria and...